Yarrow estimates he made 850 speeches. The post is unpaid and “actually cost me money,” he said.

“You get up at 7 a.m., first meeting at 7:45 a.m., it’s normally a breakfast with 20 or 30 people. You’d have a full day of meetings — ambassadors, trade ministers, central bank governors — and you’d probably go out to lunch somewhere with about 200 people,” said Yarrow

“Then the afternoon is filled with a number of meetings with stakeholders of the City. Then you have a dinner which could be anything between 300 and 1000 people, which you give a speech at. So you’re speaking about four or five times a day,” he added.

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